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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Young prostitutes who live at the decaying Tata Raphael Stadium (where the famous 1974 Mohammed Ali - George Forman "Rumble In The Jungle" fight took place) with some 70 other homeless youths. The boys work at odd jobs during the day and the girls work as prostitutes for between $5 and $15 around the stadium and in town in order to survive. An estimated 30,000 children live in the streets of Kinshasa. Years of dictatorship and conflict have destroyed the social fabic of Congolese society..Kinshasa, DR Congo. 05/07/2006.Photo © J.B. Russell

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Young prostitutes who live at the decaying Tata Raphael Stadium (where the famous 1974 Mohammed Ali - George Forman "Rumble In The Jungle" fight took place) with some 70 other homeless youths. The boys work at odd jobs during the day and the girls work as prostitutes for between $5 and $15 around the stadium and in town in order to survive. An estimated 30,000 children live in the streets of Kinshasa. Years of dictatorship and conflict have destroyed the social fabic of Congolese society..Kinshasa, DR Congo. 05/07/2006.Photo © J.B. Russell